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How to Train Your Dragon came out on DVD & Bluray yesterday!  To celebrate, Speaking of Animation is giving away an autographed copy of The Art of How to Train Your Dragon, featuring signatures from writers/directors Chris Sanders & Dean DeBlois, Head of Character Animation Simon Otto, and several other animators, and more signatures will be added in the next few days.

‘How can I get this amazing book,’ you ask?  Well, SOA is hosting an animation related trivia/riddle/puzzle question game.  (triviriduzzles?)

Starting next week (Monday 10/18) we will make our first game post:  three riddle-like questions per day for five days.  You email us your answers each day.  Whoever has the most correct answers by the end of the week will receive this autographed book.  And with enough participants, we will give away second and third place prizes as well.  (HTTYD Poster, and DVD)

Each question will have three clues to an animated film.  They might be really general, or they might be really obscure.  How easy it is depends on how well you know the film.

Here are two examples:

QUESTION 1
Stay away from the butt
P. Sherman D.D.R.
Chum for Chum

QUESTION 2
Unaccompanied Miners
Its a good thing the hunter isn’t a murderer
Beware of apples

So what movies do these two sets of clues suggest?  That would be your job to figure out.  In this case, the answers are Finding Nemo and Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.

See what we did there?  ‘Stay away from the butt’ is a small idea near the beginning of the film.
And Unaccompanied Miners is like a misleading pun, but it also describes the dwarfs before they meet Snow White.  Get the idea?

So starting Monday, make sure you check back at the site for your first three questions.  Let’s see if we can have some fun.

|the SOA team

Unfortunately, due to complicated contest laws and fees in many other countries we can only declare winners in the United States.  Our sincerest apologies to our international readers.  Anyone outside the US is still more than welcome to have fun playing the game, but the contest and prize(s) are only for the United States.  Perhaps in the future we will have a team of lawyers that can sort through intricate international contest legality.  We reserve the right to change the rules as we see fit.  Void where prohibited by law.

UPDATE:
You can check out the progression of the game below:
| Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | Day 4 | Day 5 | Tie-Breaker Announcement | Tie Breaker | Official Game Results |